Our Mission
Speech and Debate is a unique activity that brings together over 150,000 high schoolers across the country to engage in critical thinking, creating new friendships, and learning about our world. Unfortunately, not everyone has equitable access to information on speech due to things like resource disparities. Partnering with Debate Resources, which helps to solve these resource disparities for debate, our nonprofit seeks to solve these resource disparities in speech. Speech Resources is a completely free tool designed to provide you with a hub for all of your speech needs. Run by a team of both current and past high school speechies, we provide a tool for speechies of all skill levels to find everything they need to succeed. On our website, you'll find a variety of free resources for Extemporaneous Speaking, Interpretation, and other speech categories as well as analyses written by our
talented team.
Meet the Team
Founder & Senior Director:
Katherine Zakari
Directors of Extemporaneous Speaking (IX, USX):
Joshua Walter (IX) & Katherine Zakari (USX)
Director of Interpretation (POI, DI, HI, DUO):
Charlotte Raketich
Director of Oration (OO, Info, Dec):
Laurel Balcolm
Contact Us
Is there a resource out there that you think is helpful that we don't have on our list? Do you want to write a blog post on our site? Do you have a specific question about a post? Have something else to share with us? Let us know!
Please feel free to contact us through our email:
resource.speech@gmail.com